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Liberated Gardeners are free from aching backs, empty wallets, toxic sprays and boring gardens. Using the practices in the various categories (below right) can help you spend more time in the garden...
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Figs in a Jam!
I love the look on the face of a person who's only known Fig Newtons and is getting their first taste of a tree-ripe, juicy, sweet, luscious fig from our back yard. Figs are one of the best fruiting...
View ArticleLocally Grown: Community Gardens
What if there’s a community before there’s a garden? There’s an interest in organic vegetable gardening like never before. But many people have yards that are too small or shady to support a vegetable...
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Cedar Arbor
My last project before taking my summer break from garden-making, included this arbor built from cedar trunks and branches.The clients asked for something that looked like elves made it. I also drew on...
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Edible Landscaping Nursery
Twenty five years ago, Mike McConkey, in Afton, Va., had potted up a few hardy kiwis given to him as cuttings from an old nurseryman. When the nurseryman was quoted in a garden magazine saying that...
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Burch Ave. Community Garden Cleans Up Well
Thanks to folks from the Durham Community Land Trust, Cornucopia, Bountiful Backyards, NC School of Science and Math, Compuware and the neighborhood, the community garden got a a coat of stain on the...
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Welcome Urban Farm Readers
If you're checking out my blog because you read about it in Urban Farm magazine--welcome!My book, tentatively titled, The Liberated Gardener, is in the works, but meanwhile you can learn a lot of my...
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Soaker Hose 101
I drove by a yard once where the gardener was opening up a brand new soaker hose and getting themselves all tangled up in it. Looked like a one-person game of Twister. The coils had them in it's grip...
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Clothes Line Posts = Garden Sculpture
With the warm, dry weather we've been able to reduce our power company's use of coal and oil (and conserving our money for our Travel Fund) by putting a lot of laundry out on the clothesline to dry...
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Need a Speaker for Your Garden Club?
Check out this short video about my work as a garden speaker, created by my friend Bill Elias.I'm available for programs on deer-resistant gardens, gardening with containers, edible gardens, native...
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